The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-20

! OF the Baxter STORE houses dJ OlusJSt, AZ
both full of new goods One will be filled
with groceries and drugs, the other with
dry goods.
The new Democratic Executive Commit
tee for the new county of Lake met at va
laha July IA to recommend to the Governor
for appointment a registering officer for
Lake county, to register for the coming
election to decide the county seat.
box of preserved oranges was received
in Palatka Friday from $. j. Hoggson, OF
New Haven, Conn, whose process was eX-
planned in these columns last winter. Sew
eral gentlemen who tasted them stated it as
their belief that the process was successful.
The Bombay Manufacturing Company is
doing q large and constantly increasing
business both at its store and mill, in oppo-
sition TO the preconceived idea that bust
ness in Florida is only active in winter, and
in summer is virtually stagnant from the
excessive heat.
Efforts are being made to establish pub
lie hospital at st. Augustine, and the sum
| of s., 900 has already been subscribed toward
that end. 1t is proposed to organize dra-
matte company, composed of local talent,
the proceeds Of the entertainment to be de-
voted to this object.
At Bombay, the Teachers Institute is still
in session, and some very interesting discus
| siOns have taken place From the high in
telligence of those constituting the confor-
ence this free exchange of ideas will be pro-
ductive of much good to the educational in
terests of West Florida.
The first ballot of the new Lake County
! Commissioners, in relation to where the
| temporary county seat should be-
was; LeeSburg, 2; Altoona, 1; Eustis l.,
| and TavareS |. 1t may be some time be
fore even this is settled. Talk runs high,
and is the theme just now.
On his last trip to DeITuniak Springs, f.
! c. Sheppard, of Pensacola, took up keg of
fish to be evaporated in the DeFuniak fruit
dryer. The result of this experiment will
be watched with interest. If gulf fish can
be disposed of in a dry state it will open up
a wide field for new industries
Crops continue to do well around Anthony
and no alarm is heard on account of rust or
worms. Corn is especially promising-in
fact, a good crop of this cereal is assured
Cotton as yet is among the unknown guam
tity, for this crop cannot be safely counted
on until it is gathered. Still the prospect is
fair.
From reliable sources the Lake City Re
| porter learns that the acreage planted in
provision crops i'll Columbia county is larger
this year than for a long time past, and as a
rule few debts have been made by the farm
ers. Everything indicates more satisfac-
tory state of affairs than for the past ten
years
A visitor to Santa Rosa Island recently
| brought TO Pensacola several specimens of a
pea which he had found growing there and
exhibited them. The pea is of brilliant
red color about the size Of a white bean,
grows in pod about the size of the green
| peas and on a plant about one foot in
height.
AT a meeting of the Branford Town Council
ON Tuesday the books of the TaxAssessor were
| presented for inspection, and showed $751; 900
as the amount Of taxable town property, A
tax of frye mills advalorem was levied by
| the Council for general revenue, and A. B.
| Peterborough deputized by the Council to col
| lect the same.
A now excursion steamer called the Bes-
| sic NJ. will soon be plying the waters of
| Pensacola Bay. She is rs feet in length, 16
feet beam, draws 5 u feet, and is licensed to
carry $50 passengers Her former owners
claimed a speed for her of 49, knots per
hour. She is expected to arrive here in
about week, when she will be put to work
Immediately.
AT Hawthorne VIII Hinson, who was shot
| through the upper part OF the left lung by
| I. G.. Holden, in the difficulty over the pub
lie road on June 2S, was up again on Friday,
and out on the street. The ball was skillfully
taken out of the back by Drs. w. w. and
| w. c. johnson on Tuesday. The ball had
embedded itself in piece of rib and carried
clear through the body to the back
A gentleman who has bought land on the
river near Ogden for that purpose, will put
up fruit-cannng and fig drying" factory
for fruits as soon as the requisite amount of
fruits to begin on can be grown. The tin
cans used will be made on the place be-
tween the packing seasons. The gentleman
speaks highly of the capacity of the sur
rounding country, and says it only lacks
development.
DR.. William Hanson is talking of extend
ing a breakwater and filling with earth out
some 400 feet, giving property owners on
the river front at Fort Myers 200 feet more
ground, and giving a beautiful driveway,
embowered with trees and tropical plants
and shrubbery, making the most enchant-
ing drive OF three miles in Florida-or any
where else for that matter--along the Calico
Sahatchee river
1t is related of one of the Key Westers
who went to New York and was returning
home via Jacksonville that when he went
into the telegraph office at that place to
send a dispatch, he was very much incensed
at the delay in getting his message off, until
it was explained by telling him it was
necessary to disinfect the dispatch before
sending it, as it might scatter yellow fever
along the road. He was entirely satisfied
with the explanation and went away happy.
There will he colored excursion from
JdCKSDllNllle 10 Idlauka fIluaY, ana Une Dill
states that eNcursionists can remain over to
see the hanging of Virgins the day follow
ing. The prospects are that it will not be
very long before another such attraction
will be provided for excursionists in the
hanging of Steve Joiner It is strange how
these people will flock to hanging, even of
one of their own race. They make a regu-
lar holiday of it, and attend every one they
can, often going miles to view the horrible
sight.
The Pensacola Ice Company has one of
the prettieSt turtles ever seen in that VII
entity. Its back would seem to have been
grained by most accomplished artist, and
it is of that Transparency seen in the tor
toise shell Mr.. Cobb asserts that it is of
that peculiar material of which tortoise
shell combs and ornaments are made. The
handsome creature was captured in Dillon'S
pond, across the bay, and the unsentmental
Dillon insists that it is IA true and bona iidc
specimen of the green turtle, refusing to
admit that it is IA stranger 1t VIII weigh
about five pounds.
Since recent rains the clover that was
sown in Mr.. Hambror's field at South Boni-
fay is doing well and has now a vigorous
growth, thus demonstrating that the soil
here, under proper care and cultivation,
will grow clover as well rs in the North or
Northwest. Before the Northwest was set
tied up the cry was that clover would not
| grow Ia Iowa etc all of which is now